Many thanks to this very responsive group! In less than an hour, I had >10
replies, all saying the same thing:
1).I needed to add the MSFS option to my kernel, config a new kernel, and
reboot to add Advfs to my installed kernel.
2). I had the domain directories manually restored as well as the links within
the domain directories to the devices.
3). I had also manually restored my /etc/fstab to include the Advfs file and
then did a mount -a and magically all the directories complete with files
intact were available!
4) Thanks to everyone for warning me to definitely not do the mkfdmn and
mkfset commands which actually would destroy the data.
Special thanks to:
Jef HamLin <jef_at_bhe.com>
John J. Francini <francini_at_progress.com>
Timothy Baird <bairdtimothy_at_hotmail.com>
Dirk Westfal <westfal.edv_at_fvsh.de>
Cherie Willoughby <willough_at_lucent.com>
Dirk Westfal <westfal.edv_at_fvsh.de>
Dave Stapleton <Dave.Stapleton_at_psir.ie>
Kurt Carlson <kcarlson_at_arsc.edu>
Paul A Sand <pas_at_unh.edu>
Sean O'Connell <sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU>
Oisin McGuinness <oisin_at_sbcm.com>
Joanna Gaski <jgaski_at_WPI.EDU>
Nick Leonard <nickl_at_poole-tr.swest.nhs.uk>
Balaji Chandrasekar <balaji_at_astro.ocis.temple.edu>
Dr. Tom Blinn <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
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Original posting:
We had a catastrophic failure on our root disk. I have a hard copy of
my /etc/fstab and my /etc/fdmns directory. I REALLY cannot lose the data that
was mounted on these file systems. I am running 4.0D and have the Advfs
filesystem utilities installed. I have manually made the directories and soft
links to the special devices because when I went to do the mkfdmn commands, it
warned me that I MAY lose the data, and I didn't want to risk that. However
when I go to do the mkfset commands I get the following error:
# /sbin/mkfset user3_domain user3
mkfset: can't create file set 'user3' in domain 'user3_domain'
mkfset: error = E_ADVFS_NOT_INSTALLED (-1108)
I have included my previous /etc/fstab and /etc/fdmns:
===============domain info===============
/etc/fdmns/root_domain:
/etc/fdmns/user3_domain:
/etc/fdmns/user4_domain:
/etc/fdmns/user5_domain:
/etc/fdmns/user6_domain:
/etc/fdmns/user7_domain:
/etc/fdmns/user8_domain:
/etc/fdmns/usr_domain:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Mar 18 1995 root_domain
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Mar 18 1995 usr_domain
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Mar 29 1996 user3_domain
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Mar 29 1996 user4_domain
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Mar 29 1996 user5_domain
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Mar 29 1996 user6_domain
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Mar 29 1996 user7_domain
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Mar 29 1996 user8_domain
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 9 Mar 29 1996 rz3c -> /dev/rz3c
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 9 Mar 29 1996 rz4c -> /dev/rz4c
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 9 Mar 29 1996 rz9c -> /dev/rz9c
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 10 Mar 18 1995 rz46a -> /dev/rz46a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 10 Mar 18 1995 rz46g -> /dev/rz46g
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 10 Mar 29 1996 rz10c -> /dev/rz10c
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 10 Mar 29 1996 rz11c -> /dev/rz11c
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 10 Mar 29 1996 rz12c -> /dev/rz12c
/etc/fstab:
/dev/rz1c /stripe1 ufs rw 1 2
/dev/rz2c swap2 ufs sw 0 2
/dev/rz46b swap1 ufs sw 0 2
/proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
/var/mail_at_coyote /usr/mail nfs rw,bg 0 0
root_domain#root / advfs rw 0 0
user3_domain#user3 /user3 advfs rw 0 0
user4_domain#user4 /user4 advfs rw 0 0
user5_domain#user5 /user5 advfs rw 0 0
user6_domain#user6 /user6 advfs rw 0 0
user7_domain#user7 /user7 advfs rw 0 0
user8_domain#user8 /user8 advfs rw 0 0
usr_domain#usr /usr advfs rw 0 0
My question is how do I go about getting back my /user3 - /user8 directories
without losing their data? Thanks.
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Received on Wed Dec 01 1999 - 18:52:11 NZDT